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Mastering spaCy

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Build custom NLP components and integrate them into spaCy workflows

  • Fine-tune transformer models for specialized NLP tasks

  • Develop end-to-end NLP workflows using spaCy-LLM and FastAPI

  • Apply advanced NLP techniques for semantic extraction and coreference resolution

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December 2025

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11 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 11 modules in this course

In this section, we install spaCy and its language models, configure the environment, employ displaCy to visualize entities and dependencies, and assess spaCy's suitability for production-level Python NLP workflows.

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2 videos2 readings1 assignment

In this section, we build a spaCy NLP pipeline, customize the Tokenizer, segment sentences, apply lemmatization, and explore Doc, Span, and Token containers to strengthen everyday language processing skills.

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1 video4 readings1 assignment

In this section, we walk through spaCy workflows for Part-of-Speech tagging, dependency parsing, and Named Entity Recognition, then merge or split tokens to supply clean linguistic features to applications.

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1 video3 readings1 assignment

In this section, we design token and phrase patterns using spaCy's Matcher, PhraseMatcher, and SpanRuler, employ POS, morphology, and regex operators, then integrate rules with NER to extract domain-specific entities.

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1 video5 readings1 assignment

In this section, we build SpanRuler rules for LOCATION extraction, craft DependencyMatcher intent patterns, and assemble a custom spaCy pipeline leveraging Language.pipe() to efficiently process large ATIS datasets.

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1 video4 readings1 assignment

In this section, we integrate transformer-based transfer learning into spaCy, examine BERT and RoBERTa architectures, and prepare config files to train an accurate TextCategorizer for production NLP pipelines.

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1 video6 readings1 assignment

In this section, we integrate spaCy and LLM components, build a summarization pipe, design Jinja-based prompts for context-aware extraction, and embed these custom tasks to enhance NLP performance.

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1 video3 readings1 assignment

In this section, we assess spaCy's default NER on domain texts, annotate entities using Prodigy and nertk, then configure, train and integrate multiple custom NER components for accurate, specialized pipelines.

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1 video2 readings1 assignment

In this section, we clone a Weasel spaCy template, customize it for varied NLP tasks, then integrate DVC Studio to version data, track experiments, and enable reproducible production pipelines.

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1 video4 readings1 assignment

In this section, we configure spaCy's pipeline to train an EntityLinker, craft high-quality annotated corpora, and evaluate linking accuracy with a custom reader for knowledge-base integration.

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1 video2 readings1 assignment

In this section, we connect spaCy models to Streamlit and FastAPI, building an interactive NER web app and a type-hinted REST API that serves entity extraction for production use.

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1 video2 readings1 assignment

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